Earlier this morning, teenage Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign to further girls' education. This makes her, at just 17-years-old, the youngest person to ever receive the award. Go Malala! There's no doubt she's earned it.

You might remember when, in 2012, Yousafzai was shot on her school bus in an assassination attempt—the shooting was a response to the anonymous diary she wrote about living under Taliban rule for BBC Urdu in 2009. Yousafzai survived being hit in the head with a bullet and was flown to the U.K for surgery, where she recovered and still lives today. After overcoming a traumatic event like that, most people would lay low. Not Yousafzai—with the whole world now paying attention to her story, she became a tireless activist for education, even speaking to the United Nations on her sixteenth birthday. In 2012, she started her own foundation, The Malala Fund, with the lofty goal of creating a world where all girls are empowered to get a real education. And, last year, she published a powerful memoir, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban (if you haven't read it yet, you definitely should!).

"Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations," Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said of awarding her the Peace Prize. "This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education." And Pakastani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called her the "pride" of the country, saying, "Her achievement is unparalleled and unequalled. Girls and boys of the world should take the lead from her struggle and commitment."

We can all learn from her dedication. In just a few short years, Yousafzai has become a powerful force for change—in our opinion, the Nobel Peace Prize is just the beginning for this girl.